Sir William Grove in the year 1839 discovered this principle through an accidental electrolysis experiment. When Sir William disconnected the battery from the electrolyzer and connected the two electrodes together, he observed a current flowing in the opposite direction, consuming the gases of hydrogen and oxygen and thus he called this device a 'gas battery'. The device consisted of platinum electrodes placed in test tubes of hydrogen and oxygen, immersed in a bath of sulphuric acid thereby generating a voltage of around 1V. He then used the electricity produced to power an electrolyzer thereby splitting the hydrogen and oxygen. This fuel cell was not practical since it had issues pertaining to corrosion and instability of materials.
In the early 1960s, General Electric (GE) also made a significant breakthrough in fuel cell technology. Through the work of Thomas Grubb and Leonard Niedrach, they invented and developed the first polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell. Now that we understood a little bit of the history or what I call rhetoric, let's tell you what they don't want you to know first p e m is a polymer stands for; Proton exchange membrane (PEM)
So most scientists will tell you that statement, it's incorrect if you go by that name your only talkin about what happens in the water. The correct name or a better name would be
Polymer electrolyte membrane, but again you won't get much out of this by names. So why did the scientist say this in the first place it can be stated that, The PEM electrolyzer was introduced to overcome the issues of partial load, low current density, and low pressure operation currently plaguing the alkaline electrolyzer. However, a recent scientific comparison showed that state-of-the-art alkaline water electrolysis shows competitive or even better efficiencies than PEM water electrolysis.This comparison moreover showed that many of the advantages such as gas purities or high current densities that were ascribed to PEM water electrolysis are also achievable by alkaline water electrolysis. Electrolysis is an important technology for the production of hydrogen to be used as an energy carrier. Again I'll tell you this is to confuse you and to deter you from ever DIY your own, now what's keeping mine will your homemade gas battery ever function better or as good as their commercial one, it's not impossible but you will have to gain experience by building them yourself. Let's start simple first let's tell you the list of things they've already tried.
Style of membrane/diaphragm
Solid polymer
Bipolar/separator plate material
Titanium or gold and platinum coated titanium
Catalyst material on the anode
Iridium
Catalyst material on the cathode
Mmm Platinum
Anode PTL material
Titanium
Cathode PTL material
Carbon paper/carbon fleece
So the little secret they had here is that just about any material could be used, so why don't they because they Cook Road or they become eroded over time when you put electricity to them or in them. People who have build their own hydrogen generator knows this to be a fact. Carbon can be used is cheap inexpensive and can be easily replaced. But this doesn't help the industrial world no 1 in corporate really wants to make it easy for you to make your own or come up with a message to get around buying their products, so they came up with a specialized polymer it's just a plastic or even a rubber that conducts electricity example. [1] [2]
Now if you have clicked on the highlighted example, 1 and 2, then what you just realized is that I ruined those corporates plans of industrializing into their evil little plan to put you in economic slavery. Now you know how to make conductive polymers. Until the corporate world sorry!
Now that you understand how to do this very easily what are you going to do with those polymers try making some of these examples now go make your own
Now you can play the game of buying all these expensive gadgets, because they came up with all types of interesting ways for you to dispose of the cartridges so you can buy more, but as we shown you it would be very simple and easy for you to make your own by using the same materials as example yes instead of making a battery out of it you can easily make a hydrogen cell from the same materials, the oxygen from the outside would collect next to the aluminum and the carbon would get its electrons from the hydrogen. There's only one more thing you need to know you could buy the very ink to do all of this so listen to this last example and understand where batteries are going in the future, and then make your own way in this world
